Spoke-socket



(No Model.)

- H. H. STEVENS:

SPOKE SOCKET. No. 343,504. Patented June 8,1886.

UNITED STATES l a'renr tries.

HENRY H. STEVENS, OF MARENGO, ILLINOIS.

SPOKE'SOCKET.

ESPBGIEICA'I'ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 34:3,504, dated June8, 1886.

Application filed January 30, 1886. Serial No. 190,343. No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY H. STnvENs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Marengo, in the county of McHenry, in the State of Illinois,have invented a new and useful Spoke- Socket, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to spoke-sockets employed in vehicle-wheels toconnect the end of the spoke with the felly.

Its object is to produce a compensating spoke-socket having aconstruction to hold the spoke end with a uniform grasp in varyingtemperatures, and adapted to the construction of new wheels or in therepair of old wheels.

To this end I have designed and constructed the spoke-socket representedin the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure l is an isometricalrepresentation of my improved spoke-socket in its application to awheel. Fig. 2 is an inner face View of a portion of a wheel-fell y withthe socket in place thereon. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on dot- .tedline 1, showing the construction of the socket and its manner ofapplication. Fig. 4. is also a transverse'section on dotted line 1,showing the complete application of the socket. Fig. 5 shows a modifiedconstruction of the expansive ring.

In the figures the felly A is of the usual form in section, having itsinner corners preferably in rounded form. The spoke-socket is producedof malleable material, and consists of a clasp-plate, B, constructed toengage the in-- nor face of the felly, and one of its flanges, O, toembrace one of its inner corners and depend on its side face, the otherflange, D, projecting laterally, or in the same plane of the centralportion of the clasp-plate, to permit it when connected with the spoketo pass the inner face of the felly, to place the parts in position, andthen to be bent to embrace the corner of the felly and depend on itsside face. The clasp-plate is provided with holes at proper points toreceive screws or nails to fix it to the felly when in place thereon,substantially as shown in the drawings. A cylindrical spokesocket, E,rises from the centralportion of the inner face of the clasp-plate, andan expansive open sided thimble, F, produced from brass or other metalhaving a greater expansive capacity than the material from which thesocket is produced, is fitted to enter the socket snugly, but in such amanner as not to bring the contiguous edges of its open side quite incontact. The outer end of the spoke H is tenoned to receive theopen-sided thimble in a manner to produce a driving fit of spoke andthimble. in the socket. structed as shown and described, the thimble isthen placed on the tenoned end of the spoke, the socket is then drivenon the tenoned end of the spoke over the thimble, the clasp-plate isthen driven onto the inner face of the felly, and the flange D is thenbent to embrace the felly, and screws or nails driven into the fellythrough the holes in the clasp-plate serve to prevent displacement ofthe parts in use. This construction and application of the socket isespecially-applicable in repairing wheels in which the tenon connectingthe spoke with the felly has become broken, in which case the endportion of the spoke can be bent or sprung to the side of the felly toreceive the tenoning implement, and when the tenon is produced the openthimble and socket can be put in place thereon and on the inner face ofthe felly, as hereinbefore stated. It is also well adapted to the repairof wheels where new spokes are required, which, when driven into thehub, may be tenoned and connected to the felly in the same manner asdescribed in connection with the spoke with broken tenon, all of whichrepairs are completed without removing the tire.

My improvement is also designed for use in the construction of newwheels, and when so employed the felly is notweakened by boring toreceive the tenoned end of the spoke, and hence the same strength ofwheel may be obtained with a less thickness of felly or of less width oftread.

In this construction of the spoke-socket, the employment of an open-sidethimble of a material having an expansive and contractive power greaterthan the material from which the socket is produced tends to preservethe fit of the parts within the socket under the varying temperatures ofthe seasons.

In the open-sided thimble shown at Fig. 5 the-meeting edges are producedin an overlap, as clearl; shown, which will be readily under- With theparts con-' 2. The combination, with aspoke-socket and spoke, of anopen-sided thimble capable of greater expansion and contraction than the15 socket under variations of temperature, substantially as described.

HENRY H. STEVENS.

Witnesses:

F. M. MEA D, J 011 KENNEDY.

